The attitude of millions of Americans is exactly that of the German
supporters of fascism in the 1930s and early 1940s. - The present wave of
hysterical intolerance in the US makes the McCarthy years of persecution
look benign, because the idea has been planted by Bush and his people that
US citizens are superior in every possible way. There can be no admission of
frailty, and no acceptance of equality. International law and treaties are
ignored or treated with contempt, and human dignity has become irrelevant.
Hysterical ultra-nationalism is thriving and gathering pace.
http://207.44.245.159/article8214.htm

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The Resort to Torture

There's no justification for kicking an enemy [POW] when he’s wounded on the
ground in front of you and about to die”

By Ghali Hassan

A recently released army documents detail ongoing sadistic abuse, torture
and murder of Iraqi Prisoners of War (POW) and Iraqi detainees by US and
British forces in occupied Iraq.
http://207.44.245.159/article8215.htm

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The Way Tyranny Works

Opposing It Is Unpatriotic!

Theodore E. Lang

Politics conveys and legitimizes the power to steal, kill, transfer
rightfully-owned wealth and property wrongfully to others, and to kidnap and
incarcerate those who oppose the “legitimate authority” of the corrupt
politicians.
http://207.44.245.159/article8213.htm

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Senior Iraqi official slain, 15 headless corpses found :

"Al-Qaeda militants" gunned down a senior Iraqi offical Tuesday and soldiers
discovered 15 beheaded bodies as the furore over the US shooting of an
Italian intelligence agent threatened to carve a deep rift between
Washington and Rome.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=38252

"Foreign Forces Must Leave Iraq as Soon as Possible," Declares the Head of
the Shiite Alliance:

No one in Iraq desires the establishment of permanent foreign bases on our
land. The United Nations Security Council resolutions are clear: it will be
up to the elected Iraqi government, when the time comes, to give those
forces a specific departure date. As soon as possible."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030705I.shtml

Mr Maskhadov, a former Soviet general, led the Chechen separatists who
fought Russian forces to a standstill in the 1994-96 war. He became the
republic's president after the Russian military withdrew, leading Chechnya
during a brief period of independence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/chechnya/Story/0,2763,1433137,00.html

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Former US ambassador warned about plot to kill Chavez :

Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel revealed in an interview
published Sunday in a Peruvian newspaper that former U.S. Ambassador to
Venezuela Charles Shapiro warned him of a possible plot to kill President
Hugo Chavez.
http://www.falkland-malvinas.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=5213

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Murder or Ouster for Chavez?:

Unnamed U.S. officials have branded the charge of Venezuela’s president,
Hugo Chavez, that the U.S. government plans to oust him from office through
assassination as “ridiculous.” Ridiculous? Maybe those particular unnamed
U.S. officials aren’t familiar with a government organization known as the
Central Intelligence Agency
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger27.html

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Aggression against Venezuela would lead to crude price rise: energy official
:

Political and social sectors of every stripe are mourning the death of
Gladys Marín, the veteran leader of Chile's Communist Party and a major
force in the struggle against the 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto
Pinochet.
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=27759

America has unjustly detained more than 5,000 foreign nationalists since
December 2001, without charging any of them with a terroristic crime, said
David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University.http://tinyurl.com/635zb

Sen. John McCain pressed a cable company's case for pricing changes with
regulators at the same time a tax-exempt group that he co-founded solicited
$200,000 in contributions from the company.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBJN82716E.html